Word: lando
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...with reporting by Ben Lando / Baghdad...
...when the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Herbert vs. Lando that plaintiffs in a libel suit have the right to probe into a journalist's "state of mind," many in the media bitterly protested. The courts, journalists argued, had become a kind of thought police, who licensed fishing expeditions into editorial decision making that would inevitably chill freedom of the press...
...case of Herbert vs. Lando has taken another twist, one that has press defenders crowing instead of complaining. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York simply tossed the libel suit out of court. It had begun more than a decade ago, when Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert sued CBS, 60 Minutes Producer Barry Lando and Correspondent Mike Wallace for a 1973 broadcast questioning the Colonel's claim that he had been drummed out of the Army for reporting war crimes to his superiors. In a 43-page opinion, Judge Irving R. Kaufman, a member of the three-judge...
...save for the occasional Uhura (Star Trek) or Lando Calrissian (Star Wars), sci-fi has tended to look as white as space is black. Dark Angel is an exception. Cameron and his co-creator, Charles Eglee, have created a year 2020 that is intriguing (economic depression, lawlessness and authoritarianism set in after terrorists sabotage America's computers). "We said, 'Let's take our optimistic runaway prosperity and just drop-kick it,'" says Cameron. But just as captivating is the show's mix of black, brown, white and yellow faces. It was a conscious decision, says Eglee, to reflect the diversity...